Hello! How are you all doing? I’ve had one round of chemotherapy and I’m due for my second dose next week. I’m wondering about the side effects and what you guys may have. One of my teeth is really sore but the most discomfort I’m feeling is back pain! Anyone else have this? I’m not sure if it’s a side effect or if I’ve just pulled a muscle and it’s got nothing to do with the chemotherapy.
I had really bad back pain, lower back and headaches which was caused by the filgastrim injections, was particularly bad from day day 4-10. I was having 7 injections but we dropped it to 5 which was a bit better. The plus side of the injections is my blood counts remained good so chemo was never delayed for me. I took paracetamol and ibuprofen, if it gets really bad then do ask your team for stronger pain relief x
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